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Critics, including the Tobacco Institute Inc., as well as many doctors, quickly pointed out that beagles are not humans, and more important, that humans smoke differently. They rarely inhale five times in a row, and they normally do not smoke butts down to less than a quarter of an inch, as the dogs did. Nonetheless, the dead beagles provided the first controlled experimental evidence of the relationship of cigarettes to lung damage...
...Marx Brothers, Ionesco produces tragic farce by using the proliferation and acceleration of physical objects-much the way that the Marx Brothers in A Night at The Opera piled people and things into a tiny ship's cabin. In The New Tenant, furniture inexorably chokes up every inch of space until the hero is entombed amid his belongings like a petty-bourgeois Pharaoh. But as the props become more animated, the people become more desiccated. The insides of Ionesco's characters are like the outsides of computers. It is only a step from their interchangeable rhinoplastic noses...
...pool or working out at paddleball or handball. If he can find a partner, he plays tennis, but he may soon run out of partners; in excellent trim (he weighs 175 Ibs., claims to be 5 ft. 10 in. tall, but appears to be at least an inch shorter than that), he is a tough, agile player who gives no quarter. Saunaed, showered and stretched, Javits slides into his dark beige Mustang convertible (license plate MBJ-1 for his wife) and zips off to the Senate, whose own gym does not open until 10. By that time, Javits has usually...
...order to devote more time to his Detroit law practice. A.M.C.'s crusty Roy Abernethy remained as president and chief executive, but Evans quickly made it obvious that he intends to be the new giver of gospel. While Abernethy scowled at a press conference and puffed a six-inch cigar down to the stub, Evans committed the automaking heresy of knocking the styling of his company's cars. For this he blamed-however illogically-former A.M.C. Boss George Romney, who left a full four years ago to make his successful bid to become Governor of Michigan...
...Goodrich and Goodyear, tiremakers this fall will introduce "the wear bar," a device adapted from aircraft tires, which have a red cord imbedded in the rubber to show when the tread is becoming worn. In auto tires, small portions of the tread will be cut one-sixteenth of an inch less deep than the rest of the grooves, and will show up as bald spots when the tire needs replacing...